In their latest spotlight on notable debuts in comics, CSBG shows the first time that Peacemaker met the Suicide Squad in the DC Universe
Today, we look at when Peacemaker, who is a member of the Squad in the DC Extended Universe and now the current Suiicide Squad comic book, first met the Squad in the DC Universe.
In “When We First Met”, we spotlight the various characters, phrases, objects or events that eventually became notable parts of comic lore, like the first time someone said, “Avengers Assemble!” or the first appearance of Batman’s giant penny or the first appearance of Alfred Pennyworth or the first time Spider-Man’s face was shown half-Spidey/half-Peter. Stuff like that.
One of the fascinating aspects of the DC Universe in the wake of Crisis on Infinite Earths is that, at least in the books dealing with the United States Government, things were taken very seriously in the connection between the various titles, all of which were working for the government, but, of course, different groups had different agendas.
The three main projects were the Suicide Squad, the spy group, Checkmate, and the Atom Project, which created Captain Atom. There were also a couple of side projects, namely Project: Peacemaker and the American Security Agency’s Force of July group. The main groups are pretty much all considered Take Force X.
The storyline begins when Amanda Waller reveals to Checkmate that the other groups within Task Force X are working against them and that they need to be taken out…
Peacemaker and a few Checkmate agents take Dr. Megala captured, the top scientist of the Atom Project and in the process, nearly kill Wade Eiling, the guy in charge of the Atom Project. The Atom Project then sends one of its agents, the sadistic Major Force, who hunts down the kidnapped Dr. Megala and is met by Peacemaker, who plans on killing him…
The Squad are brought in to take out Dr. Megala themselves while he is in Ckeckmate custody and when the Squad shows up, they see Peacemaker and Major Force duking it out and Vixen orders the Squad to take them BOTH down and Shade the Changing Man uses his belt to deal Peacemaker a major blow to start…
Peacemaker, you see, was the son of a former Nazi Commantdant and he was REALLY messed up due to that, psychotically. His father was a strict disciplinarian, so he imagines his father yelling at him, at the same time, he is disgusted at his father’s Nazi beliefs. A dazed Peacemker decides to complete his mission and kill Dr. Megala…
The explosion kills Megala (Seemingly) and almost kills Count Vertigo…
There was a lot more bloody in this panel than you would see in a typical 1988 comic book, so in the context of that scene, the Suicide Squad movie might not even be as bloody as this, all things considered!
Peacemaker later attacks the Suicide Squad to gain revenge…
We then learn that the villainous Kobra is trying to replace key government figues with clones that he controls and one of these clones was meant to replace Waller, but instead, Waller beat he doppelganger and is now just going along with it until she reveals the truth to the other heads of the projects…
The combined team travels into Outer space to take the Kobra down…
In an awesome sequence Duchess and Peacemaker share a moment…
Kobra is eventually defeated by the combined groups.
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